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by aylmao 8y ago
> Why would I choose to invest in your language over one of these other ones that has more momentum? FWIW I don't think anyone is claiming you should, especially given it's not under active development (:
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by aylmao 8y ago
> don't have a contract or prior agreement with them and also predict that some people won't respect my property. How does this apply to the founders though. They sold, so isn't WhatsApp now not their property?
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by aylmao 8y ago
FWIW this is from the perspective of and American consumer (I assume, from your comment below where you mention AT&T). Most WhatsApp users aren't American, and in a lot of places $1 is a more significant price tag. That aside thoug
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by aylmao 8y ago
It's Facebook's and it will live in the Facebook app, not Instagram.
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by aylmao 8y ago
One has to consider history though. European top researchers crossed the Atlantic due to the war and later because it was more stable than Iron-curtained Europe, but now that a lot of factors have settled there’s probably less brain-drain i
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by aylmao 8y ago
I mean, I think people are somewhat missing the fact that it's not like these worlds are separate or competing. Some people have worked on both PHP and HHVM, and it seems like they've always acknowledged that they have different g
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by aylmao 8y ago
Adding more servers stops being a good option after a certain point. If you're a small company running on 20 servers you can increase your performance by 5% if you add just one more. Install it in one day, boom. If you're running
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by aylmao 8y ago
Well, the compiler was its own thing and had very different goals. I'm sure that wouldn't have flown for most use-cases and from what I've read it was used only for running production code because compilation took a while. HH
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Testing and monitoring can be used to combat type errors. I agree, though IMO this is another upper-bound. You can only test and monitor so much before resources and performance start becoming a bigger issue. I think companies can defi
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by aylmao 8y ago
Types are documentation that the compiler (or interpreter) forces you to write and keep consistent, and that your editor can easily understand (:
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by aylmao 8y ago
Also because if you use the same language it's easier to re-use code and interface definitions.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Considering that the gap also means increasing disdain against the rich, I'm not that surprised. Not saying it's all just PR and getting on the good side of the mob, but it's still true that before being revered for his phila
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by aylmao 8y ago
But considering the gap, it could be better. This is like the tax-cuts-- "Oh, you should be happy you're getting a few hundred dollars back!". Well yeah, but if the cuts had been made fairly across income brackets, I'd b
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by aylmao 8y ago
Someone mentioned www.citibank.com.sg vs citibank.com.sg in the issue. One of my school's websites: I can't remember what it was and this was before I understood what the difference is, but www worked much better than without iirc
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by aylmao 8y ago
> Happiness is subjective. And if the science is correct, it's independent of consumption. This is true after a certain point. It's independent of consumption, but there's an amount of wealth we need to attain to meet a ba
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by aylmao 8y ago
I find this interesting and it reminds me of a friend of mine who is Finnish. After college, she moved back to Finland, knowing she wouldn't make as much money there as she would in the USA. But she also mentioned she wouldn't nee
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by aylmao 8y ago
This. An incredibly rich top 0.1% percent could skew GDP per capita a lot, but a happiness index not so much. Simplifying things to the extreme, take 100 people where half of them earn $1 and are unhappy and half $2 and are happy. Give one
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by aylmao 8y ago
In all seriousness, that's not malware though. Facebook is a big company competing directly with Google: it makes sense that they want a similar level of access to market insights as their competitor has. Google collects a lot of data
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by aylmao 8y ago
I really hope Apple pulls through with a thorough research of other free VPN apps on the App Store and cracks down on other sketchy ones too. I doubt that Onavo users will be inclined to pay for a VPN, and I suspect they instead will look f
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by aylmao 8y ago
Someone posted this on another thread: https://github.com/iodide-project/pyodide What I gather is that it's compiling CPython to WASM and ships it along with some other utilities. It looks pretty cool.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Good article. This applies to all projects-- JavaScript or not.
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by aylmao 8y ago
Gotcha. After looking through the source on Github I'm more at ease. One always has to be skeptical about things that involve authenticating to important accounts.
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by aylmao 8y ago
I mean, they're not really getting access to some secret Facebook data. They're getting access to the user's data, including their username/password.
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by aylmao 8y ago
As a Facebook user I think I agree with Facebook's position here. It makes sense they block crawlers like this; especially if they ask users for their username/password. > Facebook is free to leech your phone of every last bit
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by aylmao 8y ago
I think the ban is legal, yes, and in this case I also think it's correct. But correct on what terms? I'm not really sure where I draw the line between "hate speech" and not.
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by aylmao 8y ago
I agree 100%
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by aylmao 8y ago
Never thought of it this way, but this is actually a great take on it that makes a ton of sense.
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by aylmao 8y ago
> WhatsApp was encrypted before the acquisition. WhatsApp was acquired February 2014 and end-to-end encrypted April 2016. > And I am 100% confident that is why they want to find a way to monetize it directly. Not having access to data
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by aylmao 8y ago
I think a lot of this is economics, culture and the city-scape of the US. In other places (my home country included) there's no meetup.com, but there's just more community and family. Having lived in the US I've noticed the f
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by aylmao 8y ago
Focusing primarily on Japan vs the US, I'd argue there's two other factors that might be as big: economics and individualism. - Japan process of modernization much more recently and revolved more around technology companies. In th

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